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Engineering Education Innovation Center
Extracting Drawings - DEMO
Although most demos are implemented with word documents, this demo employs slides so that more details can be shown to the students as the drawing is constructed.
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Formal Drawings
Formal Drawing
Components:
1. Extracted Drawings
• Extracted Views
• Detailed Features
• Title Block
2. Dimensions
• Size and Type of Features
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Definition: Detailed multi-
view representations of a
finished part
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Extracted Views
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Purpose: create 2D
engineering drawings
from solid models
Base View Right View
Top View
Isometric
View• Part File to Drawing File
• Place Base View
• Project Top, Right
• Isometric View
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Detailed Features
• Automatically Aligned Features
• Hidden Lines
• Orthographic Views
• NOT on Isometric Views (unless necessary)
• Circular Features
• Centerlines
• Center Marks
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Title Block
• Specific to Company
• Part Name
• Scale
• Units
• Author
• Date
• Any Other Necessary Information
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The OSU Title Block Template
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• Drawing Title
• Drawn By
• Scale
• Instructor
• Hour
• Units
• Seat
• Drawing No.
Date
TOP
ORTHO
FRONT
ORTHO
RIGHT SIDE
ORTHO
ISOMETRIC
ISOMETRIC SCALE NOTE
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Load Files from SolidWork-7 EEIC website
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Place the following files in your SolidWorks folder:
• Extracting_Drawing_Demo_Part.SLDPRT
• Extracting_Drawing_Demo_Drawing.SLDDRW
The following slides are intended to be used as an
Instructor led demonstration with the students
replicating the shown operations. Note that the
drawing created in this Demo will be used in the
following Dimensioning Demo.Rev: 2014-07-13 - RCB
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SolidWorks: Drawing File
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Select the correct part
file from open
documents or using
the “Browse..” button
to select closed files
Open the
Extracting_Drawing_Demo_
Drawing.SLDDRW and use
the “Model View” button to
place a base view.
Extracting_Drawing_Demo_Part
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SolidWorks: Model View Options
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Choose base view
(usually front view)
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Display hidden lines
for orthographic
views
Select "Use custom
scale" and choose
appropriate scale
(1:2 for this demo)
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SolidWorks: Extracted Views
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Insert base view by left
clicking once at the correct
location
Place projected views by
left clicking in the
appropriate directions and
spacing
Press “Esc”
when finished
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SolidWorks: Changing Options
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The size of all the
views can be changed
by selecting the base
view and changing
the scale
A scale note can
be added using
Annotation and
A Note
The isometric view
can be selected in
order to change it’s
display properties to
a solid part without
edge lines
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SolidWorks: Circular Features
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The current version of
SolidWorks adds Center
Marks automatically . If
additional Center Marks are
required, they can be
added using the Center
Mark option
Centerlines must be
added to define circular
features in
Orthographic views by
sequentially clicking on
the vertical hidden
lines defining the
holes.
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Sometimes SolidWorks does not do
Centerlines very well!
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Click on Centerline Left click on blue
square and pull it down
Adjust blue square up release
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Finished Drawing
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SolidWorks: Title BlockRight click ON Sheet
Format1 (or anywhere
on the drawing) and
select “Edit Sheet
Format”
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Right click
and select
Edit Sheet or
left click on
icon in upper
right screen
to restore the
drawing
Double click
item to edit
Title Block Text
Click on the RED X
to accept the text
and hit Esc key.
Complete all blocks.
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Save the Extracted Part Drawing for use
within the following Dimensioning Demo
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If the student has successfully completed the
Extracting Demo, use File Save As and name
the file:
My_Dimensioning_Demo_Drawing
If the Extraction Demo drawing is incomplete,
a completed version is available within the
Dimensioning Demo on the SW_07 page on
the EEIC website.
(Dimensioning_Demo_Drawing.SLDDRW).
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Extracting Drawings Wrap Up
Extracted Views
• Part file to drawing file
Detailed Features
• Aligned
• Hidden
• Circular
Title Block
• Author
• Units
• Scale
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Homework Assignment
Problem 6.4 (qq)
Model part and create 2D
Drawings with all necessary
formatting (to be used in next
class)
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In-Class Assignment
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Open this part file
and use it to extract
2D drawings. Add all
necessary formatting.
(Hint: Centermarks
and Centerlines)
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End of Presentation
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The following slide provides an alternative method for retrieving the
correct OSU drawing template. The recommended method is to
download the Drawing_Template.SLDDRW from the SolidWorks-6
EEIC website page as illustrated on slide 6.
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SolidWorks: OSU Title Block
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The OSU Title Block is already loaded on the
First Year Engineering Computers and is the
same as what is in the EEIC Templates folder
on the course drive
To locate uncheck the “Only
show standard formats” box and
scroll to the bottom of the list